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New English waiting list data: view the interactive maps
Where are the longest waits? What are waiting times like in your local NHS? How difficult is the new waiting time target? Here are some maps to help you find the answers.
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'Safe and secure housing is critical to the wellbeing of mental health patients'
Housing needs for patients with mental health need to be properly addressed in order to improve mental health services and individuals’ health.
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Latest waiting time stats: one year waits halved in October
One-year waiters halved in October; a spectacular success for the NHS. Otherwise, it’s steady as she goes as we head into winter.
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Learning from a model medical leader
The swift changing of the seasons in Boston accompanied an equally swift change in administrator for the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Pointing the finger
Pointing the finger of blame at one individual is often convenient for a lot or people, but
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Just do it! (Subject to rules and regulations)
I’m only a couple of months into my year in the USA, but I’ve quickly picked up how things are done here.
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Is community care, as we know it, dead?
Reports of the death of community care have not been exaggerated.
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When is whistleblowing not whistleblowing?
I was recently surprised to hear an NHS board member described as a whistleblower, given their position and power.
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The strikes don't mean staff don't like doing their job
Generally across the public sector, staff remain committed to providing a high standard of service to the client or end user. Keeping morale high should be a line manager’s priority in a time of organisational cuts and structure changes.
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How hard is the new 18 week target?
The new 18 week target can be achieved. In a few places it is going to be difficult. But most of the NHS could achieve it by improving patient scheduling alone.
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The pressing case for linking physical and mental health
The link between physical and mental health is one all too often missed. But the example set by an acute hospital in Birmingham that has invested in high quality liaison psychiatry shows that integrating physical and mental health services has efficiency and financial benefits waiting to be discovered.
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When customer care alone is not enough
Apparantly the saviour of public sector finances is better customer care. Is that really enough? Please hold while I connect you to an advisor.
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If the NHS is doing well, why is it changing?
A recent Commonwealth Fund survey saw respondents praise the NHS. So are the reforms aimed at addressing the right problems?
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Making the case for a one-year limit on waiting times
Rob Findlay and Anthony McKeever make the case for NHS trusts guaranteeing a one-year limit on referral to treatment waiting times.
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Macho macho management
Three quarters of the NHS workforce is female, half of GPs are women but commissioning is man’s work, according to workforce figures. Is this consciously unfair, or a simple by-product of the current climate?
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Dancing with the devil? Exorcism in the NHS
A blog about the revelation that the NHS uses exorcism as an alternative form of treatment for some mental health patients.
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A shocking indictment of corporate management culture
A documentary on Gatwick Airport produced an eyebrow-raising insight into private secotor management culture.
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Why can’t health and social care services get it together?
Everyone is talking about integration, but why haven’t we got it together yet?
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When the long-waiters are forgotten
When patients are forgotten on waiting lists, anything can happen. Sometimes comical errors, sometimes awful tragedies.
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In the drive for equality, culture eats strategy for breakfast
Even the best laid strategies sometimes fall short of achieving their goals. With an issue like equality, cultural changes are just as important as putting official plans in place.